Contact: jimlake24@gmail.com Working with a WAZER waterjet to cut precision parts from fiberglass and the problems we encountered. Check out my other videos at @jimlake5404
Hello Hello From Canada!!! There is a video done by a welding kit guy who went to a convention and had a demo from a rep for a very similar waterjet as yours. He was showing how well the Wazer cuts carbon fiber sheets and they look amazing. The place that makes the fiberglass sheets you are having trouble with delamination, probably doesn't have strict enough quality control for truly even resin spread and is blaming the waterjet for their inferior laminations. You should check out the video link I will try and put at the end of my comment. That little unit you have is supposed to be a real deal cutting machine just in mini form LOL. You should have incredible success with a carbon fiber in that thickness because carbon fiber sheets are really put together with no skimping on resin and real quality bonding not like those flimsy fiberglass sheets. Keep up the great work and I can't wait to see all the cool model airplane parts you will be making out of carbon fiber soon. 🙂👍 Video showing the little waterjet on carbon fiber at time 9:30 th-cam.com/video/_1tELH1BNrA/w-d-xo.html
I cut laminated material all the time on a waterjet. Mostly metal. However, we have a drill installed on our waterjet that will pierce the hole. On a machine like this that’s probably not the option.
I was one of the first suckers that purchased a Wazer. I purchased this to cut metal, specifically copper sheet. Cutting copper on a laser takes alot of power and the heat can change the properties of the copper for our application so a waterjet is the way to go! Oh, but not a Wazer, it's a total piece of garbage, unreliable performance, painfully slow, expensive to operate, hard to operate. The only thing consistently we have been able to cut on it is leather, which I could get the same results with a good pair of leather trimmers! It's a total waste of good money. Honestly, I can't believe they are still in business!
It was a disappointment for me to discover that you can not successfully cut laminated materials. I suppose I should have realized that before I bought it, but I didn’t. Lately I have been cutting quartz that has been cut and polished. It works, after a fashion, but it is slow and it buggers up the back side of the cut. The front of the cut is clean, but when the jet breaks through the back side it tends to chip off small pieces of brittle materials. I have been experimenting with various ways to cure this (it is similar to the chipping you get on the back veneer of plywood on a table saw as the blade tooth strikes the lowest veneer causing a glue failure). I spoke with WAZER about it and they suggested I slow down an already painfully slow cutting process. Since I need to bond a very thin piece of stainless steel to the back of the quartz anyway for support, I am going to try to bond it before I make the cut in hopes that will stop the chipping. The problem, of course, is that produces a laminated material which we already know get delaminated by the jet. It can’t hurt to experiment, but I feel your pain. I am sure there are better ways to use this machine. I keep looking for them. I also tried cutting .016 s.s. with it. Thin material like that tends to be blown down and out by the force of the jet leaving a feathery edge perhaps .010 high perpendicular to the plane of the material on the back side of the cut. It is impossible to remove it without mucking up this fairly fragile material.
If you don't mind me asking what thickness of copper were you trying to cut. I have been thinking about trying this machine for thin copper, brass and silver
Hello Hello From Canada!!! There is a video done by a welding kit guy who went to a convention and had a demo from a rep for a very similar waterjet as yours. He was showing how well the Wazer cuts carbon fiber sheets and they look amazing. The place that makes the fiberglass sheets you are having trouble with delamination, probably doesn't have strict enough quality control for truly even resin spread and is blaming the waterjet for their inferior laminations. You should check out the video link I will try and put at the end of my comment. That little unit you have is supposed to be a real deal cutting machine just in mini form LOL. You should have incredible success with a carbon fiber in that thickness because carbon fiber sheets are really put together with no skimping on resin and real quality bonding not like those flimsy fiberglass sheets. Keep up the great work and I can't wait to see all the cool model airplane parts you will be making out of carbon fiber soon.
🙂👍 Video showing the little waterjet on carbon fiber at time 9:30
th-cam.com/video/_1tELH1BNrA/w-d-xo.html
laminated materials are notoriously hard to cut with water jet, even cnc routing requires special end mills
I cut laminated material all the time on a waterjet. Mostly metal. However, we have a drill installed on our waterjet that will pierce the hole. On a machine like this that’s probably not the option.
What if you used sacrificial material above and below the laminate?
I was one of the first suckers that purchased a Wazer. I purchased this to cut metal, specifically copper sheet. Cutting copper on a laser takes alot of power and the heat can change the properties of the copper for our application so a waterjet is the way to go! Oh, but not a Wazer, it's a total piece of garbage, unreliable performance, painfully slow, expensive to operate, hard to operate. The only thing consistently we have been able to cut on it is leather, which I could get the same results with a good pair of leather trimmers! It's a total waste of good money. Honestly, I can't believe they are still in business!
It was a disappointment for me to discover that you can not successfully cut laminated materials. I suppose I should have realized that before I bought it, but I didn’t. Lately I have been cutting quartz that has been cut and polished. It works, after a fashion, but it is slow and it buggers up the back side of the cut. The front of the cut is clean, but when the jet breaks through the back side it tends to chip off small pieces of brittle materials. I have been experimenting with various ways to cure this (it is similar to the chipping you get on the back veneer of plywood on a table saw as the blade tooth strikes the lowest veneer causing a glue failure). I spoke with WAZER about it and they suggested I slow down an already painfully slow cutting process. Since I need to bond a very thin piece of stainless steel to the back of the quartz anyway for support, I am going to try to bond it before I make the cut in hopes that will stop the chipping. The problem, of course, is that produces a laminated material which we already know get delaminated by the jet. It can’t hurt to experiment, but I feel your pain. I am sure there are better ways to use this machine. I keep looking for them. I also tried cutting .016 s.s. with it. Thin material like that tends to be blown down and out by the force of the jet leaving a feathery edge perhaps .010 high perpendicular to the plane of the material on the back side of the cut. It is impossible to remove it without mucking up this fairly fragile material.
If you don't mind me asking what thickness of copper were you trying to cut. I have been thinking about trying this machine for thin copper, brass and silver
so those in Australia are 16 grand a pop. ouch, I can't justify that much lol
Try laser cutting that material, maybe?
Fine Prise?
Whats the RH% of your shop?
hi my waze machine is for sale like new thanks
Did you sell the machine? I might be interested if you still have it...
Excelente video, dónde puedo comprar esta máquina? Saludos
It is made by an American company called WAZER
@@jimlake5404 porfavor algún correo? número de contacto directo con ellos? te agradecería mucho Jim
@@mauriciodelgado1 Maurice, Here is the email: support@wazerhelp.zendesk.com